Former Linebacker, Rep. Colin Allred Punts Senator Ted Cruz in Debate

The race is close: Polls show Cruz, the two-term Republican senator, has only a narrow lead over the Democratic congressman in the GOP stronghold weeks from Election Day.

The two candidates for the U.S. Senate, incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, faced each other for the first time in Thursday’s only debate statewide.

What stood out in this debate was two dynamic candidates confronting each other in person for the first time. They had good back-and-forths about many issues, including one on border security.

Earlier this year, a bipartisan border security bill failed to pass the U.S. Senate. Sen. Cruz voted against it because he believed it didn’t go far enough.

Cruz said the stakes in the election are the highest in his lifetime and that Allred and presidential candidate Kamala Harris are running on the same radical agenda. He said Allred has pledged to be the 50th vote to end the filibuster, the requirement that 60 votes were needed to pass legislation in the Senate and that Democrats would then strike down every Republican voter integrity law in the country. He said Democrats would then add Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as states to give them four new Democratic senators. He said they’d then grant voting rights to every illegal immigrant in the country, immediately turning Texas blue and bringing about a change in state leadership. He said they’d also pack the U.S. Supreme Court, jeopardizing fundamental rights. Cruz said Allred wants to destroy Texas and that he will fight to keep Texas, Texas.

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